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Word: procession (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
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...senior class on Commencement. Owing to the large numbers in the graduating classes of recent years, the wholesale distribution in Sanders Theatre has caused a scene of confusion which it is hard to reconcile with any idea of dignity attaching to the exercises of the day. The actual process of conferring the degrees is out of harmony with the general tone of the exercises. These, to be appropriate to the occasion when seniors are finally closing their college career, should be dignified and impressive throughout; which the exercises of the past few years have not been. Members of Ninety-three...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/19/1895 | See Source »

...appreciate its advantages. Year by year, however, the circle has widened, and appreciable progress has been made in the direction of interesting in the work other classes, including teachers, clerks, business men, mechanics, and factory operatives. "To reach the last mentioned class," says Dr. James, "must be a slow process at best. It can be done only as a result of interesting other classes better able financially to assume the initial expense of developing and establishing this method of instruction. When it is once firmly established in a community for one class of society, means will be found of enlarging...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Extension Work. | 5/3/1895 | See Source »

Plautus introduced many innovations, especially in metre and in musical accompaniment. The character of the parasite, if not his invention, was certainly elaborated by him. The great proof of Plautus's originality was his popularity. The influence of one poet upon another is always deeply felt, and so the process of transmission from the Greek to the Roman, must not be regarded as imitation, but as continuation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Latin Poet and His Greek Model. | 4/11/1895 | See Source »

...dark, wretched forest of evil, and in order to reach the light attempts to climb the mountain of virtue, but is met and repulsed by passion and sensuality in the form of wild animals. He then meets reason in the person of Vergil, which shows him that the process of redemption is slow, and is not to be achieved by one great effort. He must rise through the purgatory of penitence. Dante tells us that there are many senses to his poem. Beside the meaning spoken of it has a political significance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE DIVINE COMEDY. | 4/6/1895 | See Source »

...already occupied. At present there are 100,000 volumes in the basement and reading room, including about 10,000 reserved books. The latter will be placed in Lower Massachusetts shortly after Class Day, while all the rest will be temporarily placed in the basement of Conant Hall. The process of packing and moving the books will be begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Library. | 4/5/1895 | See Source »

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